Black Internet Furious After Usher Gets Wrapped Up in Trump’s Online Mess
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Tea Party-Backed Candidate Pantano Faced Charges of Premeditated Murder
Tea Party-backed candidate Ilario Pantano is running for Congress despite being on trial for premeditated murder five years ago. While serving in Iraq in 2004, then-2nd Lt. Pantano killed two Iraqi civilians after stopping them for a search. He then placed a sign on their car’s dashboard that read, “No better friend, no worse enemy.”…
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Obama Campaigns Quietly From the White House
In true Obama fashion, the president is reaching out to Democratic voters despite being “off the campaign trail” for the next three days. Less than a week before Election Day, President Barack Obama is quietly using the power of his office to reach Democratic voters in a final effort to get supporters to the polls…
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Study: Half of High School Students Admit to Bullying
CNN is reporting that half of all high school students say they have bullied someone in the past year, with nearly as many saying they have been the victims of bullying, according to a new study released this week. The study of the “Ethics of American Youth,” released Tuesday, surveyed more than 40,000 high school…
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Joe Jackson: Stay Out of Michael Jackson's Estate
A California appeals court rejected a bid Tuesday by Michael Jackson’s father to challenge the administration of his son’s lucrative estate. A three-justice panel of the California Second District Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed a probate judge’s ruling that Joe Jackson didn’t have standing to intervene in his son’s estate. Joe Jackson was excluded from…
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AskMen.com: Kanye West and Jay-Z More Influential Than Obama
AskMen.com has rolled out the results of its fifth annual “Top 49 Most Influential Male” survey, and there were some surprises, like celebrities ranking higher than the president of the United States. Comedian Jon Stewart, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Kanye West made up the top five. Not only is West in great…
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Court Halts Limewire Music-Sharing Service
According to Reuters, on Tuesday a U.S. federal judge in New York City granted the music industry’s request to shut down the popular Limewire file-sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement. In Manhattan federal court, Judge Kimba Wood halted one of the world’s largest services for letting consumers share music, movies and…
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Rocky Mountain Low
By Jessica Dweck On Election Day, Colorado residents will determine who gets to be a person. They’ll vote on Amendment 62, which defines a person as a human being from the beginning of “biological development.” That’s code for conception. The measure would grant fertilized eggs the right to life, liberty, happiness and due process of…
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Juan Williams' Taboo-Breaking Mishap
It’s as if Juan Williams were a man in a small rain forest tribe and he called out a taboo name for a spirit. Or a lion. Or said the name of someone deceased. In human societies, some words will be considered magical — and not just in the societies we think of as primal.…
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Juan Williams and the Slippery Slope of New-Media Values
Behind and beyond the headlines about the process in the Juan Williams case — the firing, the reaction to the firing, the reaction to the reaction to the firing, pseudo-First Amendment arguments — the imbroglio shines a spotlight on troublesome developments in media. Truth, facts, fairness and objectivity have been the hallmarks of good journalism…
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Valerie Jarrett Makes Another Plea for Black Voters
The White House’s last-minute push for black voters continued today, with senior advisor to the president Valerie Jarrett taking questions from black media during a conference call scheduled by the DNC. Jarrett’s opening statement, like much of the Q&A that followed, covered ground that’s been covered a lot in the past few several weeks: Though…